Top Links
- Roslyn Code Quoter tool – generating syntax API calls to generate any C# program (Kirill Osenkov)
- Announcing Gallio and MbUnit 3.4 (Yann Trevin)
- Bending Your Code Like Anders With C# Roslyn APIs – More About Syntax Trees (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- Stronger password hashing in .NET with Microsoft’s universal providers (Troy Hunt)
- Using requestAnimationFrame in JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)
.NET / Visual Studio
- It uses async, run for the hills (On .Net 4.0) (Oren Eini)
- Email Q&A: Entity Framework Modified State and SaveChanges and When Entity Framework 5 (EF5) is not Entity Framework 5 (EF5) (Julie Lerman)
- What’s New in C# 5.0 – Learn about CallerMemberName Attribute (Kunal Chowdhury)
- FizzBuzz kata in F#: stage 1 (Mark Seemann)
- Visual Studio Tip Move Multiple Files using Move command (Tarun Arora)
- Inside the DLR – Callsites (Simon Cooper)
- Example WinRT/Metro App: How to edit default template in Visual Studio 2012 and Blend and Example Metro app /WinRT: Out-of-the-box Icons for Buttons (XAML) (Iris Classon)
- 8 Quirks Windows 8 XAML Developers Should Understand Before Starting Their Metro App (Jerry Nixon)
- System colors in WinRT/XAML (Joe White)
- Faceted searches with Lucene.NET (Ricci Gian Maria)
- A steaming hot .NET Gadgeteer project, the steampunk weather station and "Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management" free eBook (Greg Duncan)
- WinJS Custom Controls (Corrado Cavalli)
- FileLoadException: Could not load file for Version 2.0.5.0, Portable Class Library (Derik Whittaker)
- Making money with your apps through the Windows Store (Antoine Leblond)
- Weak Event (Bnaya Eshet)
- Windows 8 Style Apps? (Brent Schooley)
Web Development
- Most Popular JavaScript Tokens (Ariya Hidayat)
- Partially Applied Functions In JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
- JavaScript Exactly Equal (Joe Mayo)
- 3D Flipping Circle with CSS3 and jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
- Using Toastr with Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Preview) (Michael Washington)
- The problem with mobile frameworks (Rob Borley)
- APress Deal of the day – 23/Jul/2012 – Web Standards (Tatworth)
- Windows Azure Marketplace Update: New Features, Availability in 12 New Countries (Peter Horsman)
- New Blob Constructor in IE10 (Sharon Newman)
- BSON (Binary JSON) and how your Web API can be even faster (Filip W.)
- NPAPI plug-ins in Windows 8 Metro mode (Carlos Pizano)
- Orchard 1.5.1 (CodePlex)
- Dynamically Injecting Menu Items in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
- Quick Tip: 7 Super-Handy PHP Functions for Beginners (Andrew Burgess)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- When do you need a 3-tier architecture? (Simon Brown)
- If You Write An Article About TDD, Make Sure It Is Correct (Dennis Doomen)
- Article: Tackling real-world unit testing problems (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Agile Coach – 5 Tips for Building Relationships at a Client (Peter Saddington)
- Beyond Agile Estimation Part I: Measuring Key Data Points (Stephen Forte)
- Structure of DDD+ES Solution in Visual Studio and Bounded Context is a Team Working Together (Rinat Abdullin)
- Game Design: Using PowerPoint with TFS to do storyboards, Part 2 and Game Design: Tools you need to get familiar with, a bunch of downloads and installs (Surf4Fun)
- Blackbox testing node.js apps (Swizec Teller)
- & Thou Shalt Remember Me in Right Order (Vishal R. Joshi)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
- Hours, Velocity, Silo’d Teams, & Gantts (Johanna Rothman)
- An easy way to write an integration test with Web API (Ugo Lattanzi)
- Time Management Tips #1 – Add Power Hours to Your Week and Time Management Tips #2 – Add Creative Hours and How To Get Your Groove Back On (JD Meier)
- Upcoming book on VS 2012 ALM (Brian Harry)
- Why Source Control Matters and Hopefully it’s Git (Chris Missal)
- How GoF Brought my Understanding of Object Orientation to Another Level (Anders Abel)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone: Pizza Splitter and Getting System Info on Windows Phone and Using Entity Framework to Create Databases on Windows Phone (Adam Benoit)
- 2000 WPF Things #608 – Class Handlers Are Invoked Before Instance Handlers (Sean Sexton)
- WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.6 (CodePlex)
- A Live Tiles Tutorial (Sam Nasr)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 222: Gael Fraiteur on Aspect-Oriented Programming (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 444: Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD, Halo 4 Console Sounds RTX . . . (Larry Hyrb)
- The Metro Developer Show Episode 076 – “Untitled” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- The Tablet Show – David Bates on the Zombification of Flash (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Start Up Success Podcast #145 – Show #52 Sramana Mitra on Positioning your Startup. (Bob Walsh)
- The Vergecast 039 – 07.19.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
- TWC9: Dating Windows 8, visiting Napa, cooking Metro, magic Matrix and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
- What Is an Arduino Shield and Why Should My Netduino Care? (Brian Peek & Fabien Royer)
- Episode 84 – Windows Azure Storage Updates and a Preview of the Client Storage Library vNext | Cloud Cover (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
- Windows Weekly 270: We’ll Look Back and Laugh (Paul Thurrott)
- 90 Seconds on The Verge: Friday, July 20th, 2012 (Ross Miller)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 146 – 07.22.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- SharePoint 2013 at SPTechCon – and SharePint 2013! (Andrew Connell)
- Windows 8 Developer Camps and Hackathons – Coming July to September (Brian Hitney)
Database
- Plotting SQL Server Data for Data Visualization (Tim Wiseman)
- Parallel Execution in SSIS with MaxConcurrentExecutables (Sam Vanga)
- PowerPivot import data from SQL Server (Katie & Emil)
- Display Line Numbers in a SQL Server Management Studio Query Window (Ashish Kumar Mehta)
- SQL Server 2012 – Effective usage of EOMONTH function (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Download SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit – Update July 2012 and SQLAuthority News – 2 SQL Server Documentations Updates and SQL SERVER – Observation of Top with Index and Order of Resultset (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2013 Review: Installation Process (Jason Gaylord)
- Installing SharePoint 2013 preview on a standalone, workgroup server (Reidar Husmo)
Miscellaneous
- New Programming Jargon (Jeff Atwood)
- ‘Stupid’ Question 3: What is a compiler and an interpreter, and what is the difference? (Iris Classon)
- Metro style and OneNote MX (Christian Nagel)
- The new Office Web Apps (Gray Knowlton)
- The Unsung Story of the Windows 8 Desktop (Jeremy Likness)
- 30 More Questions About Windows 8 That I Get Asked All The Time (Jerry Nixon)
- Microsoft’s ‘big boobs’ code is a big blunder — get over it (Molly Brown)
- Experiencing modern Office with SkyDrive: Cloud-first. No compromises. (Omar Shahine)
- Nokia and Windows Phone are misfits (Joe Wilcox)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 21, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 22, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 23, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Friday Five–July 20, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
- Collective #21 (Manoela Ilic)
- Pie in the Sky (July 20, 2012) (Brian Swan)
- The Morning Brew #1151 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #920 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Geek Reading July 20, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #28) (Himanshu Singh)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-23 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 7/20/2012 and Daily News Digest 7/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #56 (Frank)
- Windows Dev News for July 22, 2012 – #0105 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for July 09 – 15, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
- Retrospective 93 – Becoming an #Agile Coach #Series (Peter Saddington)
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